Turner v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

Appellant was tried at the September, 1924, term of the Clay circuit court on a charge of malicious wounding. The jury considering the case rendered an unsigned verdict finding him guilty and fixing his punishment at confinement in the state reformatory for one year. The jury were discharged and the defendant was remanded to jail in custody of the jailer.

No objection was raised as to the sufficiency of‘the verdict, nor was any motion for a new trial made or any judgment entered thereon. Presumably the court considered the unsigned verdict…